90% of Indian businesses are family-owned

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--India has secured the 39th rank, climbing 16 places from last year, on the annual Global Competitiveness Index prepared by the World Economic Forum. India has a score of 4.52 on the Index, while that of Switzerland, ranked 1st, is 5.81.

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--India’s premiere institute IIM-Ahmedabad has added one more jewel to its crown and has been ranked as the business school offering best career progress across the world, in a recent ranking of global business schools by UK-based newspaper The Financial Times.

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--India ranks 119 in FM Global Business Resilience Index because one-third of India’s population is still living below the poverty line.

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--969 companies are listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

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--In the black market in India, a 5-ml vial of cobra venom is priced Rs 15,000.

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